Author(s): Julie Powell

Cooking, Food & Wine

How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living. Pushing thirty, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell is, in a word, stuck. In her desperate search for an escape, she comes up instead with The Project - a deranged assignment, to take her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking and cook all 524 recipes. In the span of one year. First published 2005.